Cheskichips,
To Atheists: How did you come to terms with having no purpose in the world?
Pretty much the same as theists, invent one. What purpose do theists serve? They believe they are serving some unknown purpose that their creator designed for them, but ask them what it is and you will receive hundreds of different answers. Ultimately they each invent an idea that makes them feel comfortable as to what their imaginary god has in mind for them. And then of course they worry all the time hoping that what they have decided to do with their lives is what their god intended for them, and of course never knowing for sure since gods generally don't comunicate very well, well in fact; never.
In the meantime theists go about their every day lives just like atheists, all trying to achieve numerous short terms goals, like paying the bills, finding/ending relationships, theiving/murdering or not, giving birth, getting married, buying a new car, achieving some sporting acalade, dying, etc. Pretty much no differences between them. And like most atheists most theists have no substantial goals in life, most people just drift through life, either enjoying it, or being miserable, depending on ones personal outlook.
But what is this theist insistence that there must be purposes? Why must there be a purpose? What's wrong with just enjoying life because it is simply there? There is no inherrent necessity for anything to have a purpose.
That is to say; atheists, by their own decrees have no inherent value, nor do their religious counterparts.
Hmm, value is different to purpose I think. Atheists place tremendous value on their lives, because it is all they have, whereas theists treat life as just an unfortunate temporay state since they expect their best times are in the promised afterlife. This is the main reason why theists love making wars and are quite content to kill each other because they see this life as transient and of little value.
To the atheist the value of a person is self-ascribed...but if the person who's ascribing the value has no value, then there's no credence to that value! It becomes an exercise in masturbatory futility. Obviously, if you have no value and no place...you have no purpose.
You've simply totally confused the differences between value and purpose.
So atheists, let me ask you...why do you keep on living at all?
Because the alternative isn't at all attractive - non existence. But the question is more important for you as a theist. Why the heck don't you kill yourself, or at least not make too much effort to stay alive, since don't you really want to be in the loving arms of your fantasy deity? At least the muslims get that and are quite happy to blow themselves up.
You've simply got everything totally reversed. Life has little value to the theist, its temporary, but to an atheist it is priceless because it is all there is.
- Is it to simply enjoy the next physical sensation in a never ending quest for ambrosia?
- Do you enjoy constructing emotions through intentionally placed ignorances?
- Does the struggle of giving another shmo with no purpose an equal chance to share meaninglessness drive you through life?
- Or are you just afraid to die?
I can't really relate to any of those bizarre sentiments. Looks like some grotesque theistic indoctrination you've been fed.
Those things aside, are you an animal? Or are you an animal uniquely different and elevated above other animals? If you bite me...can I put you to sleep? Why not?
Huh?
Just in general I'd like to hear from atheists about how they struggle to find a reason to not end their lives when they've already determined internally they have no purpose at all. Or, I would at least like to hear the delusions they use to convince themselves.
Well really there simply is no issue. There is no necessity to have a purpose other than to live.
It is sad that while the atheists recognize the reality of life and the ugliness of death the gullible theists instead delude themselves that when they die they will be magically whisked away to some perfect utopian paradise. We can thank religions throughout time for propagating such a preposterous deception - of course billions of people are going to want paradise instead of non-existence. It's the biggest con in the history of mankind.
